Category: Personal

Kindly sympathize with reader Gordon Zaft who is currently going through blog-writing withdrawal due to a broken wrist.

Lord Jesus, protect the soldiers and Marines who are fighting the enemies of peace. Save the people of Iraq from the wolves who seek to dominate them. Pour out your wrath on the bloodthirsty men who kill and terrify the innocent. Have mercy on their souls, but crush them utterly, and may their humiliation lead the wicked to repent their evil deeds.

Hi folks… I’m writing this between periods of strong medication before heading back to bed. Hopefully this blog will be somewhat lucid. Please keep me in prayer down in Florida. I’ve got one of the worst cases of the shingles that my doctor has ever seen. Hopefully the cause of the breakdown of my immune system is stress and not cancer. Should know by next week and will likely remain out of action for remainder of the month.
Fortunately, this is Holy Week. So the pain is rendered bearable by the fact I have Our Lord’s suffering to which to turn. Nevertheless, prayers would be much appreciated.

10. You panic when you think you’ve run out of shallots.
9. You know precisely how many days it’s been since you last sharpened your heavy European knives.
8. You refer to pre-ground black pepper as “grey dandruff.”
7. You call the “parmesan cheese” in the green can “white dandruff.”
6. You believe fresh garlic has sacramental qualities.
5. You can tell where an olive oil originated by tasting a single drop.
4. You have a quasi-erotic attachment to roasted pignoli.
3. You look down on people who don’t know that “pignoli” is Italian for “pine nuts.”
2. You think the first step for preparing “instant” mac-and-cheese is making a roux.
And the #1 way you can tell you’re a food elitist…
1. You would spend more on a truffle than a car payment.

A friend asks prayers for the family of Catholic writer/speaker Johnnette Benkovic:

+ Please storm heaven for the necessary graces. He had recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. Jesus, mercy.

Dear G–,
Our son, Simon, was killed today in his truck in an accident. Please pray for us…please pray for us.
Johnnette